Hiroko Kawasaki

All is Well

Forever a Woman

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation...

Ornamental Hairpin

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patr...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the...

The Lady and the Beard

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between t...

Spring Thunder

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and l...

The New Road: Akemi

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she...

Happy Times

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Y...

An Inn at Osaka

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. H...

The Groom Talks in His Sleep

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivate...

Flower

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and g...

Until the Day We Meet Again

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to...

Sisters

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant...

Eclipse

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishi...

Hard Times

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Utamaro and His Five Women

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his model...

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative...

Living Things

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Tengoku no hanayome

1945 Japanese movie

Tengoku ni musubu koi

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

Dispersed Clouds

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masa...

Love and Power

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Half Virgin

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is al...

Silver Stream

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Lat...

Dawn Chorus

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

Housewife Camellia

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his...

New Woman Question and Answer

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The...

The Golden Demon

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He belie...

Youth, Why Do You Cry?

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Mother is Strong

ABC Lifeline

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

Walk Cheerfully

Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she finds out what kind of g...

Sumida River

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mo...

Namida no Sekinin

Based on Japanese author Toshitaro Takeda's novel of the same name, the film centers around Takako, who unveils...

The New Road: Ryota

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she...